Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15dec2006
Find them, test your eyes.
XRuby is an open source Ruby compiler which compiles Ruby source code (.rb) to Java bytecode (.class).
Free Ryzom!, “We want to purchase the source code, game data, and artwork, so that we can further develop it by placing it under a Free Software license. Once this is accomplished we would reopen the universe of Ryzom to players and have it function and further developed under democratic controlled basis.”
Happy 40th Anniversary of Walt Disney’s Death! No Mouse for You. chromatic has a good question.
rpm.org, “We’re relaunching rpm.org, with a new direction for future development of RPM.” That doesn’t sound very apt. *chuckle*
InteLib is a library of C++ classes which lets you do Lisp programming within your C++ program even without any additional preprocessing. WJW.
Seasons changing round here
You can smell it in the air
Remember that I’m coming
Coming back for you
When you get restless around here
— Dan Bern, Restless
Tinky Winky Damn Near Kills Me, by Uncle AngryHands. “As a Christian, I feel that role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children.”
The dspl (Display List) Korn Shell Script, by Gary Powell. You can’t imagine the fun I have reading such things in 2006.
Fake real-time blog from XML 2006: day one, by Rick Jelliffe. Apparently not too many slides online.
The Google PageRank Algorithm in 126 Lines of Python, by Vincent Kräutler. Neato.
Is Your Database Under Version Control?, a very good question. Which database? ;-)
Iranian Typography Now, breathtaking.
Platform Studies investigates the relationships between the hardware and software design of computing systems and the creative works produced on those systems. “Forthcoming in 2008: Video Computer System: The Atari 2600 Platform, by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.” Yum.
Five seconds is a very very very long time
Much longer than you think
‘Specially if people want to kill you
Like if you re a chinchilla or a mink
I will promise publicly to undress
If you will ask these questions of the waitress
— Dan Bern, Questions For The Waitress
Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited, by Bill Walton and Curt Hibbs. The last edition was from two years ago, wow.
The Century Giant Lamp Tower, ouch.
A Message To You, Rudy: CSS Production Notes, by Andy Clarke. “In the absence of notes or conversation elements in XHTML you need to make an XHTML compound that will effectively add meaning to the conversation between designers and developers.”
The year in errors, annual fun.